Koko asks SET to dismiss Zubiri, proclaim him instead as 12th senator By Angie M. Rosales 07/25/2011

Koko asks SET to dismiss Zubiri, proclaim him instead as 12th senator

By Angie M. Rosales 07/25/2011

His Senate legitimacy under a heavy doubt of cloud following the exposé of disgraced poll official Lintang Bedol, Sen. Juan Miguel Zubiri appears to have waved the white flag after he ordered his revisors to stop reporting before the Senate Electoral Tribunal (SET).

This was the contention of rival Aquilino “Koko” Pimentel III in his petition to be filed today asking the SET to dismiss Zubiri’s counter-protest and declare him as the duly-elected 12th senator in the 2007 national polls.

Pimentel motion’s was prompted by an order that Zubiri issued to his revisors “not to report to the revision proceedings” in connection with his counter-protest before the SET.

In effect, Zubiri’s move “obviously points to his abandonment of his counter-protest. In comedic terms, Zubiri is boycotting his counter-protest.”.... MORE

Source:  The Daily Tribune

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